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COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. (WZZM) -- The West Michigan Whitecaps are looking to you for ideas for a new food item at Fifth Third Ballpark.

This will be the seventh year the ballpark has put fan-nominated items on the menu. Past winners include the Declaration of Indigestion, Baco, and last year’s winner, the Hot-to-Tot.

“This promotion is one of my favorites,” said Katie Johnson Whitecaps Food and Beverage Manager said in a press release. “We look forward to reading all of the creative ideas. The fans like trying to come up with the next big food item for us.”

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM) -- A Comstock Park man who fatally beat his cousin in a dispute over pizza, then fled with the victim’s wallet and cellphone “because he was scared,’’ failed to convince a three-judge panel he was acting in self-defense.

Blood splatters in their Alpine Township apartment were consistent with Brandon Nelson being struck several times while on the ground, the Court of Appeals cited in upholding the second-degree murder conviction of 26-year-old Kyle Alan Wilson.

Wilson, who is serving a 46- to 150-year sentence, is no stranger to prison. He moved in with Nelson in 2013 after serving more than five years for killing a 15-year-old Barry County boy in a dispute over $80.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM) -- A Kent County man imprisoned in child abuse case that left an infant with 13 broken bones has won a new hearing that could alter a sentence that has him in prison for at least 11 years.

Andrew Pedro Valdez, 29, was convicted in the Oct. 2011 beating that left his then-girlfriend's son with a broken arm, broken leg and multiple rib fractures.

The incident occurred at York Creek Apartments in Comstock Park as Valdez was removing the boy from a car seat. Kent County investigators at the time said Valdez was upset with his girlfriend for "making him get the child ready,'' court records show.

His mother took him to the hospital after a babysitter noticed something wrong with the boy's leg. Staff at DeVos Children's Hospital notified police.

UPDATE: After seeing his picture on the news, the family of the suspect was able to convince him to turn himself into the Kent County Sheriff’s Department. The suspect is a 22 year old from Grand Rapids and he was lodged at the Kent County Jail on the charge of armed robbery.

Original story:

The Kent County Sheriff Department is looking for the gunman who tried stealing from an Alpine Twp. gas station.

Deputies were called to the Mobil gas station on Alpine near Lamoreaux Drive around 6:30 p.m. Friday. A man had showed the clerk a black, semi-automatic handgun and demanded money. The clerk didn't give him any money, though, and he ran away, investigators said.

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. (WZZM) -- The West Michigan Whitecaps are now offering virtual tours of Fifth Third Ballpark.

The team is working with Fox Virtual Tours and Google to allow fans to get a digital look inside the ballpark. A Google photographer spent several days taking pictures of the ballpark's exterior and interior to create the virtual tour.